LEADER 03379nam 22005895 450 001 9910879593903321 005 20250807133238.0 010 $a9783031651403 010 $a3031651405 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-65140-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31596757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31596757 035 $a(CKB)33830705400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-65140-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933830705400041 100 $a20240811d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCharlotte Brontė and Contagion $eMyths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection /$fby Jo Waugh 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 08$a9783031651397 311 08$a3031651391 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontės -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and ?The Common Brotherhood of Man? -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: ?Charlotte,? Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontė?s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontė was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontė?s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontė to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontė?s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aMedical Humanities 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 676 $a823.8 700 $aWaugh$b Jo$01765270 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910879593903321 996 $aCharlotte Brontė and Contagion$94206684 997 $aUNINA